Accepting the obvious is proving difficult for conservative leaders. Instead of taking responsibility for past policy mistakes and proposing changes, conservatives are frantically coming up with various excuses why they are about to take a ballot box beating.

The list is impressive. Let it not be said conservatives are not creative.

11. “Chicago” Rigged The Jobs Numbers

When the career civil servants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8%, conservatives immediately concluded it was evidence of a “Chicago” conspiracy. From Politico:

“Chicago style politics is at work here,” Florida GOP Rep. Allen West wrote on his Facebook page. “Somehow by manipulation of data, we are all of a sudden below 8 percent unemployment, a month from the presidential election. This is Orwellian to say the least and representative of Saul Alinsky tactics from the book “Rules for Radicals” — a must read for all who want to know how the left strategize.”

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Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric and a frequent Obama critic, also suggested the numbers were cooked [on Twitter]. “Unbelievable jobs numbers. … these Chicago guys will do anything … can’t debate so change numbers.” … Eric Bolling, saw something sinister at work [also on Twitter]. “WOW Obama Labor Dept (7.8%) smarter than all 25 of Americas top Economists (8.2%est) … or something far more insideous [sic].” Radio host Laura Ingraham also bought in [on Twitter]. “Jobs #s from Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are total pro-Obama propaganda…”

“It really is interesting that it is happening right now before an election,” said Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho). “It is going to sow some growth in the economy, and the Obama administration is going to claim credit.” “I am shocked, just shocked, that politics are going on in this city!” Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) said sarcastically.

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“They are the ones who always say they want to remain independent. So they should consider, just how independent are they when they come out, only 50 days before the election, with this?” said Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.).

While the media is creating the perception that Obama can and is winning, the campaign and it’s supporters are working with their allies and former members and leaders in groups like ACORN and others to change the actual vote outcomes as much as they can. … By creating the perception that Obama is winning, the media is giving the campaign a margin in which to be able to engage in voter fraud and make it believable … this is precisely why Obama’s Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder is fighting voter identification laws so strongly. They know they are far less likely to win the if the election if honest and fair.

In March, Breitbart.com launched “The Vetting” because “Andrew [Breitbart] wanted to do what the mainstream media would not. First and foremost: Andrew pledged to vet President Barack H. Obama … he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most basic duty: to uncover the truth, and hold those in power accountable, regardless of party. From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president…”

And yet, it is never enough. Red State’s Erick Erickson wrote recently: “Honestly, he hasn’t really been vetted. We do not know a lot about Barack Obama from his time before the United States Senate. Much of what we could learn has conveniently disappeared. The few things we do know — like his connections to terrorist Bill Ayers — are dismissed by the media.”

They engage in a cover-up. They concocted a phony scenario. … They don’t even care. They got their political mileage out of this. They established the narrative that it was the video. They had a solid week of doing that, no matter who was protesting and saying it wasn’t. They had the world believing it and the US media spreading that it was a video. Now the guy that did the video is in jail, and there’s nothing to see here anymore. We move on.

Now it’s the economy, and “it couldn’t be tackled any better by anybody else.” The Clinton bump. Democrat National Convention. That’s exactly right! Obama cares, as Michelle told us and he told us. Biden told us how much Obama cares. “Gosh, he doesn’t do anything but worry about the economy and jobs!”

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Here’s why the FBI isn’t there: The FBI will find out what happened, and the regime does not want that reported. The FBI will not lie about what they find, so the regime’s gotta keep them out of there.

Obama’s out on The View and with Letterman and so forth. That’s who he’s gunning for. That audience. He’s really coalescing the Moron Vote. He’s banking on the fact that of the universe of Americans who vote, that there’s a winning majority of morons in there. He’s got academia and he’s got the media and he’s got the Hollywood crowd. Then he’s going after the actual Americans outside those institutions. He’s not going for the middle class. He’s going for the morons.

This apparently is why, according to Rush, Obama forcibly put half of America on welfare: “Obama sees welfare recipients as a majority coalition, and now we have record numbers of people on food stamps. Coincidence?”

Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work.

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the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.

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